The Indian teams know well about cloud computing, especially with our more elaborate and fashionable rain dances. Tears in the rain, we hope they don't cause too many shortages in the metallic mainframes and die hard mobile batteries. DOD practically invented the vocab for cloud computing, and these documents have only fueled .net and .mil earlier than the birth in 1960s. History seems to repeat, and so do cloud covers with weather forecasts. The bees know well what are buzzkill, yet cloud-computing is almost comparable to a busy traffic crossroad without a stop signal... timing is perfect.

To say fossil fuels are cheaper is to ignore the most expensive cost to return the environment to a carbon neutral state, yet we have been taught to ignore that cost for decades and made to point out people as stupid to mention the need for carbon neutral. Any scientist should be able to have a conscious thought that the conservation of energy doesn't magically restore all that crude oil pumped up from miles under the Earth back to its natural state.

Those near the Gulf of Mexico surely would have a conscious thought about it, now... even for non-scientists there.

The only real viable solution is to realize that cheap fuel doesn't mean the best solution.

Let's apply this to two viewers watching TV, so then you would be suggesting that "widen the base" would then mean to make the couch wider and have both viewers sit back farther in order to sit farther apart and view the TV at the same angle.

Is your account banned on ATS, too?

Looks like Sony has taken there 3DTV display meant for a single viewer (without shutter glasses) and only widen the angle for use with two shutter glasses.

Maybe they do have a patent on a patent if that wasn't so obvious. Maybe what makes it not so obvious is people tend to think you need glasses to watch any 3D displays except for Sony's technology, where you don't need glasses at all.

When you take a triangle and widen its base you change the angle of the its top arc. Cause and effect being applied. This is naturally viewing from the player perspective be a few meters apart from each other.

I'd imagine there are already stereoscopic patents for normal, single, left & right eye angles to create the 3D appearance. With what the article suggests, these angles have only been widened by a couple meters. Wouldn't this basically be the same patent at a different angle?

Dyslexic typing is not trollish, and maybe you should be mindful of those of us with such disabilities.

Notice that Slashdot has never added the "edit" feature to a comment, so that those of us with such disability can come back later and fix the comment. We just have to let live with trollish comments like yours when disabilities have taken over when we try to share the same abilities to post like you.

Mod parent very insightful.

Some used to pre-render a larger bitmap full of commonly used letters. For example, a 2kx2k bitmap cut into squares for each letter. As letters are needed, an empty square is found and filled with the pre-rendered letter with all anti-aliasing and such applied. Then the program just tells X11 to copy and blend that square to the destination. The bitmap acts like a cache that doesn't have to constantly take up bandwidth to fully send.

That has worked well except when you get into letters combination that shape differently due to different letters in the combination. For example, the tail of the y may extend further under some scripted letters than others. In others languages besides English, this occurs more often.

The enable technology the article speaks about could help in this area if the X11 server was optimized to handle such bytecode interpretation internally. Then there is no need to fill the bitmap cache with every combination of shaped letters.

What some of these anonymous cowards don't realize is the size of the cache needed to store all possible unicode characters combination with all shapes and styles applied, and then you should realize the cache method has become useless.

The article talks about a patent expiration which would enable technology, just like the article mentioned how FreeType having code enabled from what was disabled because of that patent expiration. What is so hard to understand about that? That's all I'm saying besides a possible trend.

How is not clear I'm talking about possible optimization and possible trends? Don't expect a complete posted dissertation with all technical details embedded into a Slashdot comment.

I wondered how a 'bytecode interpreter" based on static arrays would work as embedded into X11. It seems with this patent expiration, it would allow progress to continue actual deployment of any previous experiments. If we used some code from Wine and add it to a X11 backend, then think how much this could benefit bandwidth wise. It wouldn't be an easy first step except for this bytecode interpreter. A more extreme viewport on X11 would be a fully embedded Cairo surface, yet by that time we probably find exactly what can stay in the X11 process and what needs to stay in apps that use such a richer X11 display.

This isn't just an idea on a whim. There are already designs to add i7s right behind the pixel plane of monitors. With the 3D interconnect design of intel chips, you know what they are planning to do next (possible hint: Asetek prototype).

[They probably wouldn't call it X11 anymore.. maybe DirectX11. Not.]

Future of Real-Time Strategy table top games... but I don't think Twister has been ranked as RTS, yet...

Only if it doesn't have Android.

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